Transcription of Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
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1 Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) Issued: 8/26/2020 Revised: 12/30/2021 (See Change Log/Appendix F) SUBJECT: Investigation of covid -19 Cases in Pre-K-12 Schools Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention Division of Disease Surveillance I. PURPOSE This SOP provides a framework for responding to covid -19 cases among students, teachers, or staff within a school. The guidance in this SOP is not exhaustive, nor does it replace a school s strategic plan for covid -19, or direct engagement with the Maine Department of Education (Maine DOE) or Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC). The primary goal of this document is to enable students and staff to remain in the school classroom through vaccination, pooled testing, isolation/quarantine, and masking. II. ISOLATION AND QUARANTINE Case Definitions Maine CDC is following case definitions for covid -19 as established by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists.
strategic plan for COVID-19, or direct engagement with the Maine Department of Education ... • Advise families to alert their health care provider of the positive COVID-19 test, especially if symptoms worsen; and • Advise close contacts to seek a COVID-19 test. 2 ... using a template provided by Maine CDC (see Appendix A).
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